[68skylark]

I don't understand something about this article. If the documents are probably fake, why did they go ahead and mention the central charges from the documents in the second sentence of the article? Aren't they just giving undue emphasis to information that is wrong? Shouldn't they be embarrassed, and trying to retract the bad information they've already put out, rather than repeating the charges over and over?

[TheCrusader]

"Shouldn't they be embarrassed, and trying to retract the bad information they've already put out, rather than repeating the charges over and over?"

The problem is that you are a man of morals and conscience, while Dan Rather and his CBS buddies are uninhibited, unremorseful liars who are only too happy to perpetrate fruad and commit character assassination with fake documents.

[Kryptonite]

Agreed. I had similar thoughts about the CNN reporting last night.

As I see it, repeating the lies with knowledge that the document is a fake shows the actual malice necessary to win a defamation claim against a media source on behalf of a public figure.